To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
To love; to regard with affection.
To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
To dispose or incline.
To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
To tend to by affinity or disposition.
To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
To assign; to appoint.
Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
The emotional complex associated with an idea or mental state. In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the original idea.
Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.
Manifestation; expression; sign.
In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury.
Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect.
Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; - with to.
The purport; the sum and substance.
Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
Goods; movables; personal estate; - sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects.
To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.
To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish.
